nitwit005
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> Valve could easily lower the distribution fee while maintaining healthy margins.
I'm sure that's true, but Steam did reduce their take for games making over certain thresholds: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/valve-changes-revenue-shar...
Presumably, that was a response to other storefronts/launchers appearing, which means the competition did force them to change behavior. Companies don't give up revenue without cause.
No goal, and no results, but a younger guy was enthused about AI!
Then you might be incentivized to deliberately go into debt strategically, and remove the sitting opposition if you think you'll lose the next election.
I was going to echo the same. I'm less bothered by the hype than the vagueness of it all. Use AI, management doesn't know what for, figure it out. Also, prove productivity gains somehow, we're not sure how to do that, figure that out as well. Figure out AI security too, we saw a scary article about that.
There's no obvious reason to reward people for failing. If it's necessary for the economy to not collapse, nationalize it, either wiping the shareholders out or paying the current (presumably low) price, and sell it later.
The call to protest at some specific location and time might be "artificial", but people have to want to protest. Trump has simply managed to inspire millions to do so.
> I have seen small groups and solo engineers fly past the usual process of writing product requirements documents (PRDs), getting buy-in, and lobbying for time with designers or product managers by building a working prototype.
Getting time with someone isn't success. A lot of companies have some hackathon week or similar. People are going to see hundreds of demos or prototypes every time that happens.
The problem is, projects generally need staff, and getting that assigned requires influence these people are apparently lacking:
> engineers without social capital, status, or power.
That it is used for other things is not in dispute by anyone.
Sure, but there are listings of the most popular Discords. Just scroll through them:
https://top.gg/discord/servers/list/largestThe themes are pretty clear, and having a political discussion does not appear prominent.
> Amazon’s standout AI model — organized under the name “Nova” — is about the farthest thing from a household name.
I have tried asking people if they've ever used an AI product from certain companies, and you only seem to get "no", or surprise that they have any AI products, for some.
I'd say the evidence rather strongly suggests people are mostly going to discord to talk about video games and share anime art.
The most popular servers are for AI companies, and video games.
Which is not too surprising for a platform heavily designed around supporting video gaming.
The people working remotely are often still in a city, just a different city. Now they're back to commuting and simply adding to transit maintenance and congestion.
We're discussing essentially a failure case here. They wasted their time unsuccessfully trying to get media attention.
Meta does have an AI support assistant, which presumably also failed them.
> The system achieved its strongest results using OpenAI’s GPT-5, with additional testing showing improvements using GPT-5.5.
If it's basically dumping details into ChatGPT, I'd wonder why the hospital would bother paying Microsoft. They can ask it to simulate a panel of physicians too.
Companies have expanded vertically though. Usually it's not all that challenging. Manufacturers often have to build a small version of the real thing, such as a mining tools company needing a test mine.
The barrier is often that the investors aren't fond of the heavy investment and risks involved. Using AI to generate some app would presumably not have the same level of concern.
It seems like this is a relatively simpler case, where everyone sees the same content. Oftentimes, people want dashboards to query as the current user, some user group, or the people below the current user in the org chart. That means that you need to run queries dynamically, and generate the chart at runtime, rather than just hosting HTML.
The Python version simply forces the timestamp forward if needed to preserve ordering:
if timestamp_ms < _last_timestamp_v7:
timestamp_ms = _last_timestamp_v7 + 1
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/8d119208074fef0f652f1...But if you did want "monotonically increasing IDs", as the article suggests, that is what you want.
In this second case, some people live life only bothering to deal with crises, and delay anything else. It's likely not the direct threat of a meeting, but that you've made it clear it's a crisis.
> How can this be fixed?
You can find people complaining that Google search results decayed to being unusable prior to LLMs being a big thing. The marketers and spammers effectively won that fight. They'll presumably win this one too.
> Okay I’m not in the business of writing Date libraries, but still, if you need to parse a string, write a parser. And then write a factory method Date.parse(string) that uses that parser and calls a private constructor.
That's just a constructor you've given another name.
Suddenly doesn't mean instantly.
We have examples of people trying to invent languages in modern times, and it does not appear to be a fast process. The first people doing it would have the additional struggles of having no prior examples, no ability to take notes (writing having not yet been invented), and having to teach others to talk for the first time.
> Bolsonaro's coup never actually took place, and even if it had, it'd only be a reaction to the concrete actions of the supreme court.
The classic "It didn't happen, and it did..." from The Narcissist's Prayer.
> In any case, what is missing from this endlessly verbose rationalist writing style is wisdom. Wisdom involves discretion: an intuition for what ideas are and are not worth seriously pursuing, and the ability to determine what does and does not need to be said. This community, broadly speaking, does not seem to value wisdom as a trait at all; the idea that something may be true, valuable, or good merely because it is common sense or inherited tradition is anathema to them.
I haven't heard the term "rationalist blogger" before, but surely, not assuming tradition is correct is sort of key to the "rationalist" part?
There's no obvious reason to expect that continuing on will result in some sort of resolution in the US's favor.
The claims in this are a bit vague, and doesn't examine people's more specific claims of drops in activity tied to particular social media accounts.
> The results reported that Epic's client is 46% faster than Valve's client during cold starts, clocking in at 5.47 seconds compared to Steam taking 10.07 seconds. When you restore both apps from system tray background states, the new client takes 0.36 seconds while Steam takes 0.42 seconds, according to the report.
> There are still missing features that the legacy client currently has, like comprehensive social panels and advanced account management options, with its developers "working toward feature parity."
Seems fairly likely it'll get slower as they add all the missing features. I'm not sure a couple of seconds startup time will be relevant to users.
> And yet they don't - why?
These companies have all spent billions on marketing. I get constant ads from Google on YouTube suggesting I should "upgrade" to Gemini Pro.
A lot of the reason for hiring a photographer is the raw number of shots you need to take at some events. If someone needs to be dedicated to the task all day, you may as well have someone with experience.
Your post script is not correct from the point of view of the Catholic church. God essentially penned the texts with human help.
The rest doesn't quite seem like a response to what I said.